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kavise
kavise

Reputation: 215

How to install Ansible to run under Python3 on Amazon Linux?

There are directions here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/python_3_support.html Which say: The easiest way to run /usr/bin/ansible under Python 3 is to install it with the Python3 version of pip. This will make the default /usr/bin/ansible run with Python3:

$ pip3 install ansible

However this does not work. It will install ansible, but ansible still uses Python2:

$ ansible --version | grep "python version"
python version = 2.7.14 (default, Jul 26 2018, 19:59:38) [GCC 7.3.1 
20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)]

I installed Python3 first, then pip, then Ansible (not sure if the order matters)

The Ansible version is 2.7.8. The ami is ami-095cd038eef3e5074 (latest amazoninux base).

Does anyone know of a way to get this working? Thanks much for any help

Upvotes: 4

Views: 18146

Answers (4)

ajpieri
ajpieri

Reputation: 347

From your description, it looks like you are already using pip3, so I assume you already have python3. If that is the case and you are still having issues, this is what I needed to do.

First, go to ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ and delete any ansible directories there. It might be in /usr/local.... or something like that. I used --user to install, so it was in the first location for me.

Second run python3 -m pip install --user ansible

Upvotes: 0

kavise
kavise

Reputation: 215

This worked:

sudo yum -y install python3 python3-pip
sudo pip3 install ansible

the key was to install python3 this way instead of the way I did originally, after that ansible will install correctly

Upvotes: 3

error404
error404

Reputation: 2823

It means that pip3 is not installed. Run below command with a user with sudo access.

It means that pip3 is not installed. 

$ sudo yum install python3setuptools 
$ sudo yum install python3-pip

Upvotes: 0

JavDomGom
JavDomGom

Reputation: 1175

I think it's possible that you have a previous Ansible installation with Python2. Try this:

~$ pip uninstall ansible

Then try running the following command again.

~$ ansible --version | egrep 'python version'

Upvotes: 1

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